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29-Dec-2017: Free OCR service for Tibetan Books at www.dharmabook.ru/ocr, a service that is continuously improved. See Tibetan OCR for more information on Tibetan OCR.

05-Oct-2017: The Harfbuzz bug, affecting rendering of ཧཱུཾ་ is fixed with all major applications with release of LibreOffice 5.4.2. With release of Android 8.1 (Dec 2017), the bug is also fixed on Android.

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Tibetan on mobile devices

Tibetan Software (general)

Android Tibetan keyboard

21-Feb-2017: With Android 7.1.1, Tibetan support for Android is now complete. Tibetan is offered as a language for Android's UI, and with this release, also a Tibetan keyboard is included, which is installed automatically, once Tibetan is added as a language for Android in settings. See Tibetan support in Android.

A Tibetan-English dictionary for Android

06-Sep-2016: The Tibetan-English Dictionary for Android by Christian Steinert contains a very large selection of Tibetan-English and Tibetan-Tibetan dictionaries and glossaries. It supports both older devices using Wylie-transliterated Tibetan and newer devices with Unicode Tibetan. The app is available for free in Google's playstore. See also Tibetan Dictionaries for Android Devices.

The latest firmware updates (from 5.6.1) for Amazon's newer Kindle devices allow the display of Tibetan scripts in ebooks, once fonts are installed on the device and embedded into the individual ebooks. Read the article Kindle ebooks with embedded Tibetan font for installation details.

22-Jan-2013:The free Tibetan Dictionary now has support for both iPhone and iPad: It's currently the best research tool for those using an iPhone or iPad to study Tibetan. Good work! Download Tibetan Dictionary from AppStore (free). Version 1.7 from Jan 2013 adds new dictionary material.